The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/romeyroam on 2024-12-31 14:57:02.

Here’s the issue: I have a pretty sizable collection of video media from a now-defunct source. It’s meh quality, and nothing is obscure. I have better-quality copies of much of it, and the stuff I don’t is of no interest to anybody. The only real attachment I have to this archive is pure sentimentality, as they were internal to a place I loved.

I am not short on space and in no imminent danger of being so, but I have begun to see no point to keeping them, and I wouldn’t mind the 14TB back, if for no other reason than to back up other stuff that I’d like more redundancy on.

My question is *gasp* when is it ok to delete something you definitely don’t need, and is lowkey standing in the way of what you’d like to do, but is a memento of times gone by? How do you handle stuff like that? I’m not in a position to just keep adding hardware, but there’s no current pressure to find space though. However, I see 14TB sitting there, and it’s doing nothing, will continue doing nothing, and hasn’t done anything for years.

**the thinking man pose**